"I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now."

"I've got nothing to hide."

"I hid myself in food."

"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe."

"Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think."

"Gossip is poison."

"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever"

"You can do amazing things when you believe."

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals."

"I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale."

"Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing"

"If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired"

"All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath."

"Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does."

"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."

"Why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you"

"She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all."

"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

"It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."

"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."

"It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

"When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm"

"I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world."